hi this is charles hoskinson broadcasting live from sunny colorado a quick video today uh just give you a brief update about the upcoming release uh so we have daedalus version 2.2 coming out with smash and coming out with the new node version 1.19 after talking to qa devops and the rest of the gang it looks like they're very significant performance improvements uh some aspects of the software a hundred times faster uh and uh qa is reporting that everything looks pretty good so far so there's still some formalities and some last minute checks that need to be done but if there's nothing discovered today all things knock on wood we should be looking at a thursday release a general release for all users mac linux and windows so anyway look for that tomorrow go to the deadliest wallet website uh you should get an update notification as well in daedalus itself and this will be a massive performance improvement some cases a hundred times faster than the old node it just depends on what operation you're performing so sync speeds have been improved uh chain validation and revalidation have been improved uh improvements with the open closing of database so a lot of issues that people are having over the last two weeks three weeks about deadlifts being very heavy in the shelly era have been resolved in this new node release so we'll keep working on performance of course and i'm sure there's certain edge cases that can continue to be smoothed out but i'm very proud of the team in an incredibly short period of time they've been able to make rather significant optimizations the software and we've managed to polish things a bit more there's more work to do especially on the wall at back end and of course the next node release coming in a few weeks will have even more improvements and more features and functionality so we'll just continue the august march and we're over halfway through everything and we're a little ahead of scheduling certain things and on schedule with other things in terms of uh all of the post-launch remediation of the 15 top exchanges uh just bittrex and la coin are um still in the red uh still a lot more work to do on uh certain things mostly optimizations and improvements uh and we're of course working directly with those exchanges to uh to get things where they need to be and 24 7 we're available they send us logs we look at them we parse them and we've made a lot of improvements over the last two weeks that have been requested from the exchanges and so of course this is a a process it's a back and forth it's iterative development uh but we're getting where we need to go most exchanges are in the green and certainly all the exchanges should be in the green if they care to be within the next few weeks worst case scenario but i'm optimistic that this week and next week we should be able to resolve the last tail issues and there's always tail issues especially on legacy software and we're working real hard with them to do that uh so anyway that's the update major note coming improvement coming version 1.19 uh at daedalus 2.2 and that should be coming tomorrow unless there's a qa problem but everything looks pretty good right now and we're just bundling packaging and we've run a lot of different qa scenarios and it's a huge speed improvement for most use cases in most platforms in some cases a hundred times faster than the old note which is just amazing that they could do that in a two-week time period uh so kudos to the note team kudos to the devops guys kudos to the dead list team and to the qa team and the wallet back end team they've done some great work over the last few weeks to get things where they need to be and we've been digesting shelley pretty well and we're certainly learning a lot about shelley as it is in market conversations are great with the state pool operators and as i mentioned we're already collecting a lot of business and technical requirements for new features and functionality to make the staking business a bit easier and help smaller operators in particular get where they need to go uh and i'm still beating the drum of new feature developments so in addition to all this remediation cleanup and digestion which is what we anticipated for august we're really getting excited about september and getting things like the hardware wallet center and qr codes and these other features are ready to go into daedalus which will massively improve security and portability of wallets that's a big big thing we're also working very closely with a partner atex on getting multisig where it needs to be a little bit more work on coordination servers and some ideas about the best approach for that to maximize decentralization and the use of the metadata transaction standard that we have that's coming online at the end of august so we'll give you guys an update sometime in september on where we're at with multisig but this is another um high priority for us uh to to get it where it needs to go so it's going to be a busy month september a lot of new features a lot of new things and pretty proud of the team for being able to manage the shelley release as well as they did it was just a colossal effort to get it out and it was a colossal effort to manage all the partners and get them where they need to go and then finally of course to make the performance acceptable and push it through there has been some discussion about a cardano user experience index or you know some numerical way of of looking at releases and then making sure that we enforce discipline on standards for different stakeholder groups whether they be enterprise or exchange or the consumer group uh so we're right now talking with our benchmark teams and our qa teams and the daedalus team in particular about creating a canonical set of benchmarks because we have them but they exist in components like the wall at back end and the node and daedalus it would be nice to have an end to end representation of user experience and say that certain things like opening a wallet closing a wallet sinking a chain and so forth need to be at or below a certain threshold for releases uh so that'll come uh it's a high priority it's just one of those things that you know it's nice to have as we're building up to shelley but post shelly it's a requirement uh and it's one of those refining requirements that i think polishes the software greatly uh so uh little things like that are definitely come in the coming months and we'll write some blog posts and have some articles about it but all things considered uh everything's looking nice you know i'm pretty happy with where we're at and how the release was done and i'm pretty happy with how quickly we've been able to address problems that people have had uh in the old days 2017 2018 because of the way the code was written it could take two months or three months for a feature to come out and it was an incredible effort to find a performance problem or a memory leak a huge amount of labor that was just bad code nowadays we've been able to get 100x speed improvement in certain places in the software in two weeks and be able to perform its profile rapidly that's a testimony to the architecture it's a testimony to software quality and to the engineers who are involved in this and you just simply could not do this with an average c plus plus code base or java code base or something like that and uh the sophistication of our testing is going up the sophistication of our ability to go from user feedback to new feature development is improving considerably so if this is the trend we're going to get so strong by the q4 q1 time frame where it's really going to be crazy to see how quickly things move in that direction so i'm pretty happy about that in any event quick video enjoy the release tomorrow knock on wood we might discover something today that delays that uh day or two uh but doesn't look like that looks pretty good and uh let us know what you guys think and if you're seeing a substantial performance improvement uh and so forth cheers everybody
